 | Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Buy used from: $3.80 The softer side of Don Norman--seen most of this before , talks about importance of emotion in product design
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 | The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products by Craig M. Vogel
Buy new: $21.89 / Used from: $9.89 A readable and holistic guide to innovative product design
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.95 Thought-provoking premise which everyone's citing now.
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 | Watches Tell More Than Time: Product Design, Information, and the Quest for Elegance by Del Coates
Buy used from: $4.05 Industrial/product design, one of the sources for Norman
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 | Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Circle.Com Library) by Steve Krug
Buy used from: $19.15 Straight forward pointers for straight forward and usable web sites
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 | The Clustered World : How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means About Who We Are by Michael J. Weiss
Buy used from: $2.16 Slightly dated already but great intro to geodemographics. Clustering can give you good information,though hard to pinpoint group I'm in...
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 | The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.24 The story behind IDEO's culture, the most creative design firm out there
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 | Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs (Interactive Technologies) by Hugh Beyer
Buy new: $67.45 / Used from: $48.50 |
 | The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community by Ray Oldenburg
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $5.76 All about forming communities, aka "third places". Not sure how accurate the nostalgia is or how it applies to a more diverse society than the one he remembers
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 | An Introduction To Usability by Patrick W. Jordan
Buy new: $44.95 / Used from: $2.98 |
 | Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity by Marilyn Halter
Buy used from: $0.77 |
 | Ethnography for Marketers: A Guide to Consumer Immersion by Hy Mariampolski
Buy new: $41.35 / Used from: $42.35 |
 | The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (VOICES) by Jesse James Garrett
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $17.00 |
 | Re-imagine! by Tom Peters
Buy used from: $1.04 Innovation by good design, leadership and bringing women to your company!
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 | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy used from: $3.50 Making connections about social problems
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 | The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.65 Research on attempts at family-friendly corporations
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 | Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work by Deborah Tannen
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 Engaging look at gender differences in speech in the workplace
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 | Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself by Daniel H. Pink
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.06 Future of the workplace?
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 | A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age by Daniel H. Pink
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.99 Creativity is the future--welcome to the 21st century
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 | Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.01 Dark side of "Free Agent Nation"--no more corporate job entitlement
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 | Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart by Bonnie A. Nardi & Vicki L. O'Day
Buy new: $21.60 / Used from: $15.92 |
 | Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket by Gordon Mathews
Buy new: $120.00 / Used from: $84.53 All the world is a cultural supermarket and everything relates back to that
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 | Global Smarts: The Art of Communicating and Deal Making Anywhere in the World by Sheida Hodge
Buy new: $28.26 / Used from: $11.32 |
 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $2.50 Unconscious split-second impressions are powerful!
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